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> It was a fast, dynamically changing situation, everyone was getting sick...

I think one could say a lot of the reaction of governments around the world was knee-jerk, "let's copy what that other government is doing" kind of thinking. Not that this is specific to the CoVid situation, there's plenty of it going on at any given moment.

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Everyone likes to blame China. There is no opinion on China that can be stated without a huge counter group claiming the opposite. -- But, way at the beginning, they did cancel Chinese New Year and lockdown the country. So where it originated, by whatever way you want to believe, they were seeing deaths, a pandemic was spreading, and they cancelled New Years. They obviously saw the danger of an entire country being sick at once. -- Isn't it more likely that the reason we can argue about this, is because lockdowns worked, since more people lived, we can now argue that we did too much. But the reason more people lived was because we did take action, because people lived doesn't mean we could have done nothing and also had people live.

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